Mindset story: The most important thing to achieve a goal

It was a bright sunny morning as the kids started to gather around the football ground. At first, there were only a couple of them and each had his own toy and equipment. Soon there were enough kids so that they could make two teams to play football. As they were about to start picking the teams they couldn’t agree who will be the captain of each team and who gets to pick first. They all agreed that the two kids that brought the first and second most important thing would be the team captains. But they couldn’t agree who brought the most most important thing. As time passed by they decided that they should just start playing the game with all the objects they had brought, and the team would be set up by just splitting them in half where they were standing. The kids on the left were one team, and the kids on the right were the other team. That is how they would play until they would figure out which is the most important thing and then they could pick the captains and after that, they could pick the teams and finally enjoy playing soccer.

As they played they started putting away things to figure out which was the one thing that they couldn’t play the game without. The first thing they got rid of was the whistle because they thought the referee could shout instead of whistling. Then the goalkeeper removed his gloves, and the players removed their…